Bitly
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Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 20081. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many people using the shortened URLs. In 2017, Spectrum Equity acquired a majority stake in Bitly for $63 million. From November 2023, guest users can no longer create short links; an account is required.
Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, for use in social networking, SMS, and email. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many people using the shortened URLs. In 2017, Spectrum Equity acquired a majority stake in Bitly for $63 million. From November 2023, guest users can no longer create short links; an account is required. ===Preview short URLs=== To see a short URL's information, that is to reveal or preview any Bitly URL https://bit.ly/x just append a plus sign " + ", as in https://bit.ly/x+ , for example https://bit.ly/1sNZMwL should be copied and pasted into the browser address bar as https://bit.ly/1sNZMwL+ . This allows users to see and check the long URL before visiting it. ==Alternative domains== .ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com. The .ly TLD is controlled by the Libyan government, which has previously removed one domain deemed incompatible with Islamic law. Bitly users on paid plans can use a custom domain registered separately by the user and redirected to Bitly's servers via the DNS record. Bitly used to offer additional domains: bitly.com and j.mp (using the top-level domain of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States). This functionality is no longer available. ==References== ==External links==
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